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Deck Showcase + Deck Help - "W"UG Turbofog deck

HELP

Hey guys! I do want to preface this by saying - I have absolutely 0 experience with pauper. I have never played a single game and have only watched a few games. I just started wanting to get into pauper, so I did a bit of research and then built a deck I think is pretty unique in my opinion. I will first give my explanations, and then my questions at the bottom.

Decklist

Deck Explanation

First of all, I had a bunch of the best fog effects: [[weather the storm]], [[tangle]], [[moment's peace]]. I am not sure if 12 fogs is enough at all (16 if you count Moment's Peace as 2), but I am willing to accept any feedback. My main reasoning was that none of the other fogs in green were as good as these 3.

For card advantage, I can't really decide what I want to do. My original deck list ran 4 [[augur of bolas]], but I ended up cutting them. I run 19 right now + 2 arcane denials, but 4 of them are [[Lorien Revealed]], which can be lands.

How the deck wins: Once I have enough mana, I use [[Manor Gate]] + the other gates to treasure ramp whenever I end a turn with extra mana, which I expect to be often. Once I hit enough mana, I will try to play a large [[stream of thought]] to close out the game via milling. If they somehow have enough counterspells to survive, I will also be shuffling my fogs back into the deck, increasing the density of fogs in the deck until I hit another stream.

Sideboard Explanation

The unique part of this deck is the sideboard. I wanted to do a sneaky deck where I pretend to be playing UG fog, but switch to Bant(WUG) during game 2. For my colors, My lands are all simic in my main deck, but I have 8 lands that can be white dual lands if needed, [[sea gate]] and [[heap gate]]. Additionally, I will be sideboarding in 2 [[citadel gate]] so that brings me up to 10 lands that could be white, plus treasure mana if needed.

I know it is a bit wierd, but I am running 2 cards from the circle of protection cycle, my main thought being that it is a good counter against decks that turbofog has a low winrate against (namely red madness/rally and spy combo).

I don't think [[azure fleet admiral]] would be too bad earlier in the game if I know I wont be taking damage for a while; it depends on the deck I am against.

[[Guardian of the guildpact]] is effectively an indestructible 2/3 with hexproof in this meta, and can live past a krark-clan to be a reliable blocker if I can't continuously fog every turn. Additionally, it would turn on my [[prismatic strands]] from the graveyard if I also sideboard that in.

As for [[fade away]], [[counterspell]], [[relic of progenitus]], and [[campfire]] I have no clue on how they are useful but many other decklists I see have them sideboarded.

Questions

I want to know your thoughts on the deck. I have zero experience playing or building pauper so I kind of want to defer to the experts.

I currently have 19 sideboard cards, as I cannot figure out what to do with it. What cards should I add/remove?

What should I change about the mainboard? Should i switch out [[accumulated knowledge]]?

Posted Jul 3, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

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